June 13, Lewis proceeds upstream SW—says: "in this there were infinitely more buffaloe than I had ever before witnessed at a view." He measured the track of a grizzly and found it: "eleven inches long exclusive of the talons and seven and one quarter inches in width." Here he gets the first view of the real Rockies to the west, snow-covered, and by evening reached to the vicinity of the Great Falls. "I hurryed down the hill which was 200 feet high and difficult of access to gaze upon this sublimely grand spectacle." Here he waits for the Clark party to come up. In Clark's entry for this day, he says: "The Indian woman verry sick; I gave her a doste of salts." Here Lewis devotes three full pages to description of the falls. June 14, Clark's entry shows: "The Indian woman complaining all night and excessively bad this morning—her case is somewhat dangerous—have great difficulty in getting the Perogues and canoes up in safety—canoe take water frequently." The 15th, he writes: "Our Indian woman sick and low spirited, I gave her the bark and applied it externally to her region which revived her much." For the evening entry of same day is this: "the Indian woman much worse this evening, she will not take any medicine-her husband petitions to return." Lewis records on the 16th,: "we set out for the lower camp at noon—we took with us dried meat of about 600 pounds and several dozens of dried trout—at two o'clock we reached camp—found the Indian woman extremely ill and much reduced by her indisposition—this gave me some concern as well for the poor object herself, then with a young child in her arms, as from the consideration of her being our only dependence for a friendly negotiation with the Snake Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri to the Columbia river." He refers to a sulphur spring, the water of which he proposes to try on the Indianwoman—"I found that the two doses of bark and opium which I had given her since my arrival had produced an alteration in her pulse for the better; they were now much fuller and more regular; I caused her to drink the mineral water altogether—she complains principally of the lower region of the abdoman, I therefore continued the cataplasm of bark and laudanum—which had been previously used by my friend Captain Clark; I determined to remain at this camp—to make some celestial observations, restore the woman—and have all things in readiness to commence the portage." Clark adds, on the l6th,—"the Indian woman very bad and will take no medicine whatever, until her husband finding her out of her senses easily prevailed on her to take medicine—if she dies it will be the fault of her husband I am now convinced." Lewis writes in his report of the 17th: "The Indian woman much better today; I have still continued the same course of medicine; she is free from pain, clear of fever, her pulse regular, and eats as heartily as I am willing to permit her of broiled buffaloe well season with pepper and salt, and a rich soop of the same meat. I think, therefore, that there is every reason to hope of her recovery." Formidable problem here to build trucks, repack boats, and begin the portage around the falls. Lewis enters in his journal for the 18th: "The Indian woman is recovering fast-she set up the greater part of the day and walked out for the first time since she arrived here; she eats heartily and is free from fever or pain—I continue same course of medicine and regimen, except that I added one dose of 15 drops of oil of vitriol today about noon." June 19th, Lewis enters this: "The Indian woman much better this morning, she walked out and gathered a considerable quantity of the white apples of which she eat so heartily in their raw state, together with a quantity of dried fish, without my knowledge, that she complained very much and her fever again returned; I rebuked Charbono severely for suffering her to indulge herself with such food, he being party to it, and having been previously told what she must only eat. I now gave her broken doses of diluted nitre until it produced perspiration, and at 10 P. M. 30 drops of laudanum which gave her a tolerable night's rest." This indicates how much Lewis was concerned about her good health—and what he expected of her in negotiations with her tribe further on. The journal of the 19th, tells of the Indian woman: "is quite free from pain and fever this morning and appears to be in a fair way to recovery, she has been walking about and fishing." In Clark's diary for the 20,—"Not having seen the Snake Indians, or knowing in fact, whether to calculate on their friendship or hostility, we have conceived our party sufficiently small, and therefore, have concluded not to dispatch a canoe with part of our men, to St. Louis, as we had intended to do." "We believe that we are about to enter on the most perilous and difficult part of our voyage." June 24th, the item in Lewis' journal is limited to—"The Indian woman is now perfectly recovered." Lewis was attacked by a grizzly and had to run for his life, jumped into the river, and the bear left. Others of the hunters were chased by the bears,—but finally escaped. One big grizzly killed by Drewer & Fields; they got it by climbing a tree, so that when the bear tried to reach them, they shot him in the head—feet of it measured 11-: inches, exclusive of the talons—they write daily of the thousands of buffalo—of the great herds of elk, of antelopes and wolves all about them—decide to not send any men out alone because of the bears being so bold and dangerous. As an illustration of what difficulties they had to contend with when Clark had with him Carbono, York, his colored man, and the squaw and her babe,—a violent storm came on. For protection, Clark led his party into a ravine beneath overhanging rocks; suddenly, he saw a terrible flood coming on them,—a veritable wall of water; to escape it, Charbono grabbed his squaw's hand, while Clark helped to push her with the babe in her arms, up the steep bank, and only by a miracle did they succeed in scrabbling out as the flood filled the ravine to their feet, fifteen feet over where they had been but a minute before. "We quote: "One moment longer and it would have swept them into the river just above the great falls of 87 feet, where they must have perished; Charbono lost his gun, shot pouch, horn, Tomahawk—Clark lost his umbrella and compass, or circumferenter." — "the bier in which the woman carries her child, with all its clothes was swept away as they lay at her feet, she having time only to grasp her child." (They are surely having a hard time getting around the falls.) June 21 to July 15th, was consumed in this vexatious, difficult and dangerous portage.

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